Gopal Srinivasan belongs to Chennai-based TVS family, which runs the TVS groups of companies. TVS has led to the growth of Chennai as the automotive capital of India, and today Chennai is known as Detroit of India.
I caught up with Gopal in Manhattan, to find out about the unbroken culture of entrepreneurship that […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Chennai/Madras’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 26th, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Podcast, Technology
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 25th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Chennai/Madras, Ideas, India, Merger & Acquisition, Technology
The news is out. Bangalore-based Infosys has acquired the BPO arm of Philips of Netherlands for an undisclosed sum according to this press release. Infosys has also bagged a $250 million dollar deal via this Philips acquisition. This is a multi-year deal.
Philips BPO has operations in Chennai, Warsaw and Bangkok.
For the past week there was lot of chatter […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 17th, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
NEA’s Managing Partner Kittu Kolluri is an engineer turned entrepreneur turned investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this transition from being an engineer to an investor.
Kittu started his engineering career at SGI, and while there got to know Jim Clarke, who […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, India, Venture Capital
Chennai-based ISGN received $25 millions from NEA and NEA IndoUS Fund. The investors will get three seats on the board. At this point those three names have not been announced.
ISGN is a KPO company that specializes in processing US mortgage loans.
KPO is probably one of the hottest sectors for investors. There was Adventity, Gridstone Research and others, […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 18th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Chennai/Madras, India, Only in India, People, YouTube Videos
Rajni’s Sivaji: The Boss appears to be a hit. Period.
As one fan, who has seen Sivaji: The Boss twice and is planning to see it for the third time says: this is the best film of Rajni after Padayappa.
I have had emails sent to me with the movie’s dialog and if you have not seen or […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 15th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Chennai/Madras, Diaspora, Festivals & Events, People
Reports about AVM Production’s Sivaji: The Boss are trickling in and initial reports seem to be that this film delivers at least for these two Rajni fans who live in the USA. I am a big Rajni fan, and my husband for the life of him cannot understand my fascination with Rajnikath!
It was with great relish […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
